Patti Smith - 1978 Easter @ 320

Patti Smith - Easter (1978) @ 320 kbps

Easter is a 1978 album by The Patti Smith Group. Produced by Jimmy Iovine, it is regarded as the most commercial of their albums, owing to the success of the song "Because the Night" (co-written by Smith and Bruce Springsteen), which reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The first album released since she had suffered a neck injury while touring for Radio Ethiopia, Easter has been called the most commercially accessible of the Patti Smith Group's catalogue. Unlike its two predecessors, Easter incorporated a diversity of musical styles, though still including classic rock'n'roll ("Rock N Roll Nigger," one of Smith's most famous songs, "25th Floor/High on Rebellion," "Till Victory"), folk on "Ghost Dance'" spoken word on "Babelogue" (which concludes with the musical intro to "Rock N Roll Nigger" becoming louder and louder) and pop on the title track.
The cover photograph is by Lynn Goldsmith and liner notes photography by Cindy Black and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Smith's cover of "Privilege (Set Me Free)" made it into the UK charts.

Easter is the only 1970s album of Smith's that does not feature Richard Sohl as part of the Patti Smith Group; Bruce Brody is credited as the keyboard player. Sohl does contribute keyboards to the track "Space Monkey," however.

"Rock N Roll Nigger" is included on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers.

Tracklist:

01. "Till Victory" (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye) – 2:50
02. "Space Monkey" (Smith, Ivan Kral, Tom Verlaine) – 4:06
03. "Because the Night" (Smith, Bruce Springsteen) – 3:25
04. "Ghost Dance" (Smith, Kaye) – 4:44
05. "Babelogue" (Smith) – 1:30
06. "Rock N Roll Nigger" (Smith, Kaye) – 3:25
07. "Privilege (Set Me Free)" (Mark London, Paul Jones, Mike Leander) – 3:29
08. "We Three" (Smith) – 4:18
09. "25th Floor" (Smith, Kral) – 4:03
10. "High on Rebellion" (Smith) – 2:37
11. "Easter" (Smith, Jay Dee Daugherty) – 6:15

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Patti Smith - 1976 Radio Ethiopia @ 320

Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia (1976) @ 320 kbps

Radio Ethiopia was the followup record to Smith's widely acclaimed debut Horses. In interviews surrounding the album's release, Smith often said that she wanted "Radio Ethiopia" to be a hit and chose Jack Douglas as a producer accordingly. The music was noticably different from Horses in that songs such as "Ask The Angels" and "Pumping (My Heart)" sounded and were structured like mainstream rock music at the time (both songs have been likened to The Rolling Stones, one of Smith's favorite bands. However, while various songs such as the aforementioned two seemed accessible, songs such as "Ain't It Strange" and "Poppies" were less conventional, with Smith declaring the latter as the predecessor to "Land".

The title track on "Radio Ethiopia" is one of Smith's most notorious songs, almost legendary for appearing to be "10 minutes of noise". Critics often described live renditions of the song as very negative moments of Smith's concerts. Smith herself spoke highly of the track, speaking of how the lyrics refer to Rimbaud's dying wishes. Arguments both for and against the song have been developed by critics, fans and music listeners over whether the song truly is an extension of the Patti Smith Group's boundary-pushing or merely self-indulgence; similar arguments have always surrounded Yoko Ono's early work, which the song and Smith herself have been said to resemble at times.

"Pissing in a River" was released as a single with "Ask The Angels" as a b-side. It was also featured in the movie Times Square (1980) along with other late 1970s mosly punk and new wave songs.
The album was universally panned by music critics, who claimed that the band (who were criticized as being uninspired) overrode Smith herself and that the music lacked structure. In the greater scheme of things, it was a failure both commercially and critically, though The Distillers covered "Ask The Angels" for their 2000 album. Interestingly enough though, in articles about Smith in more recent times, the album has been called one of her "classic 70's albums".

Radio Ethiopia seems to have been forgotten in favor of its predecessor and the followup Easter, though some fans regard it as a truly inspiring, experimental and ambitious piece of work.
Cover photograph by Lynn Goldsmith. Dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud and Constantin Brancusi.

Tracklist:

All songs written by Patti Smith and Ivan Kral unless otherwise indicated.

01. "Ask the Angels" – 3:05
02. "Ain't It Strange" – 6:33
03. "Poppies" (Smith, Richard Sohl) – 7:03
04. "Pissing in a River" – 4:39
05. "Pumping (My Heart)" (Smith, Kral, Jay Dee Daugherty) – 3:20
06. "Distant Fingers" – 4:17
07. "Radio Ethiopia" (Smith, Lenny Kaye) – 9:58
08. "Abyssinia" (Smith, Kaye, Sohl) – 2:10

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Patti Smith - 1975 Horses @ 320

Patti Smith - Horses (1975) @ 320 kbps

Horses is the debut album by Patti Smith released in November 1975, produced by John Cale. The innovative track, "Land", is a radical reworking of Chris Kenner's "Land of a Thousand Dances". "Gloria" is a similar reinterpretation of the old Van Morrison classic. "Birdland" is based upon "A Book of Dreams" (1973), a memoir of Wilhelm Reich by his son Peter.

While Horses's commercial success was modest – it peaked at #47 on the U.S. Pop Albums chart – its impact has been far greater.

Smith has been called an early pioneer of punk rock, such as by allmusic's William Ruhlman, who said that it "isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on Horses", while PopMatters' David Antrobus chose it as his favorite album and considered it a life-changing classic. Michael Stipe bought the album as a high school student and says it "tore my limbs off and put them back on in a whole different order."

Horses frequently appears on lists compiling the greatest rock albums. Mojo Magazine named the album the tenth greatest of all time in 1995. In 2001, VH1 named Horses the 28th greatest album of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 44 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

An episode of Millennium, "The Time Is Now", would later use the song "Land" in a bizarre "music video" sequence depicting a character's descent into madness.

Tracklist:


01. "Gloria" (Patti Smith, Van Morrison) – 5:56
"In Excelsis Deo" (Smith)
"Gloria" (Morrison)
02. "Redondo Beach" (Smith, Richard Sohl, Lenny Kaye) – 3:26
03. "Birdland" (Smith, Sohl, Kaye, Ivan Kral) – 9:15
04. "Free Money" (Smith, Kaye) – 3:51
05. "Kimberly" (Smith, Allen Lanier, Kral) – 4:26
06. "Break It Up" (Smith, Tom Verlaine) – 4:04
07. "Land" (Smith, Chris Kenner) – 9:25
"Horses" (Smith)
"Land of a Thousand Dances" (Kenner)
"La Mer(de)" (Smith)
08. "Elegie" (Smith, Lanier) – 2:56

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The Game - Doctors Advocate

The Game - Doctor's Advocate - Released Nov. 14, 2006 (U.S.)

Doctor's Advocate is a 2006 sophomore album by West Coast rapper The Game released November 14. The album debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200 selling 358,988, which is The Game's second number 1 album. Doctor's Advocate is a reference to rap pioneer Dr. Dre who essentially "found" The Game, according to The Game himself. The album has many of the same producers that his first album did, including Kanye West and Just Blaze. In contrast to his debut, this album features no production from Aftermath CEO and famed hip-hop producer Dr. Dre, although longtime Dre collaborator Scott Storch produced two songs on the album. The album received a near perfect 4.5 mic rating from The Source. It has been said that there might be a mini-movie for the song Doctor's Advocate for a possible re-release of the album.

Track listing

01 "Lookin at You" 3:37
02 "Da Shit" 5:23
03 "It's Okay (One Blood)" 4:17
04 "Compton" 4:41
05 "Remedy" 2:57
06 "Let's Ride" 3:57
07 "Too Much" 4:11
08 "Wouldn't Get Far" 4:11
09 "Scream on Em" 4:20
10 "One Night" 4:27
11 "Doctor's Advocate" 5:03
12 "Ol' English" 4:44
13 "California Vacation" 4:29
14 "Bang" Jelly Roll 3:37
15 "Around the World" 4:02
16 "Why You Hate the Game" 9:22
17 "I'm Chillin" (UK Bonus Track) 4:32

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